Along the Line
...Snooze of peace reigned on a collage
of sacred impulse for serenity of shelter —
bower-girthed and soul-inundated —
but along the line, a stampede, peccant
and harlotic,
framed the sun....
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Categories:
peccant, conflict, depression, life,
Form: Free verse
Neighbours
...Moon is a lonesome voyeur
Who peeks down lustfully at the silhouetted nudity of Night.
Peccant, she does it with overt grandeur,
Reluming steadily crackling embers of a smouldering light....
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Categories:
peccant, moon, nature, night,
Form: Rhyme
Stumbling In Mordant Shadows
...How quickly I became intoxicated
from the salt I'd tasted around the rim
of the crystal chalice he filled for me
with ambrosia kisses as shadows fell.
A spell was cast on this dark bewi...
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Categories:
peccant, fear,
Form: Free verse
Through the Keyhole
...Deceit of sun when rays are still but porous;
unwelcome thief, afford my dream more seconds.
Some dappled shadows flit through mystic keyhole;
alight upon pellucid remnant image.
I stifle yawn as...
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Categories:
peccant, dream, fantasy,
Form: Iambic Pentameter
The Seeker
...Its signs are writ upon the seeker's heart,
yet still, the seeker cannot ken those signs
until his heart becomes exposed to light… ~Rumi
Man is oblivious to the notion of Life,
the pec...
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Categories:
peccant, philosophy,
Form: Carpe Diem
Peccant Words
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Peccant Words
Written: by Miracle Man
4/20/2020
Peccant words should remain unspoken,
and unsuppressed thoughts are just the same.
Many, let words fly, and hearts are broken,
* but ...
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Categories:
peccant, god, heart, sin, words,
Form: Lyric
Fallen
...Remember that I cried
when the screen slapped in to my face
annunciation of your having somebody
again
I don't cry
ever
it wasn't first time
your ego run over me
and easily I blamed ev...
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Categories:
peccant, august,
Form: Free verse
Dust Off the Dictionary
...I am archaic and forgotten these are my dusty tomes
The perennial deipnosophist verbally alone
With flowing ink my guide, the page my diligent doxy
I capriciously choose my diction and propose...
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Categories:
peccant, anger, writing,
Form: Couplet
Crying Out - 2
...Have my peccant daydreams seep away
Purged from my mind devoid all delay
Evaporate those thoughts like the mist
Wring as a sponge, oh LORD, with a twist
Have me absorb ideas you adore
Blessed visions...
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Categories:
peccant, christian, faith, forgiveness, god,
Form: Sonnet
Nemesis
...A deceptive kiss of bliss led to my nemesis,
my wanweird, falling in to your devilish abyss,
Algae covers a stony heart in a ocean of tears
for you, I don't know why, but why was I dumb
enough to ca...
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Categories:
peccant, life, loss, lost love,
Form: Free verse
Bridgeport's Nocturne
...As I sit here in the dark of night,
Street lights shining ever bright,
I write my heart out, with no contrite.
A peaceful moment I’ve been waiting for years,
For the first time, no hints of ang...
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Categories:
peccant, faith, happiness, lifewrite, write,
Form: Free verse
The Result of Cruel Fate
...The crone can hear the children's laughter, cold as ice
And they exclaim out "witch", not thinking she can hear
Their parents then admonish, "Try to be quite nice."
Upon her thin, emaciated form t...
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Categories:
peccant, death, loss, lost love,
Form: Ottava rima